Workflow guides

Contract cosmetics manufacturing software: client brands, confidential formulas, portal

In contract manufacturing the same factory produces its own brands and its clients’ brands. In Manufio every brand has a known owner, a formula opens only for the operator doing the job, and who sees prices is decided on the server.

Formulas and prices are the two most sensitive pieces of information in contract work. Neither is protected by merely hiding it in the interface; who sees what is managed per person in settings and enforced on the server.

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How it works

  1. 01

    Project and trial formula

    In an R&D project a formula is tried as a trial recipe before any product card exists; its cost follows the same rules as product costing.

  2. 02

    Quote and order

    Quote lines come from a product card or a trial formula; the price of an approved order line is frozen at that moment.

  3. 03

    Customer portal

    Orders arrive through a customer-specific portal link; for hair colour, in shade-card layout with a quantity per shade. The request becomes a draft order.

Problems from the factory floor

ProductionHard gate

Confidential formulas

ProblemThe formula is the factory’s most valuable knowledge. It should not sit in front of everyone on the production floor.

SolutionA formula opens only for the operator assigned to the job, scaled to that job’s quantity. Ingredients marked confidential are not named to people without permission. No work order can be opened with a formula the chemist has not approved.

Finance & accountingHard gate

Price confidentiality enforced on the server

ProblemPeople who should not see prices could not see them on screen, but could in a notification, a note or the data response.

SolutionWho sees prices is managed in a single list. For anyone without permission, prices are removed on the server, not just hidden in the interface. Notification and note texts never contain amounts.

Access & teamHard gate

Every permission in settings, per person

ProblemWhen who-sees-what is written into code, every change waits for a developer and a departing employee’s access gets forgotten.

SolutionEvery screen, action and notification audience is a permission, with roles and named people managed in settings. Deactivated users drop out of every list automatically, and the person editing settings cannot remove their own access by mistake.

Orders & shipping

Customer portal with shade-card ordering

ProblemHair colour orders arrived as free text with shade codes; wrong or uncatalogued codes were noticed too late.

SolutionOn a customer-specific portal link, colours are picked in the printed shade-card layout with a quantity per shade. Codes not in the catalogue are flagged and moved to the right shade, and the request becomes a draft order.

Quality

Lot chain

ProblemA complaint comes in about a batch. Which raw material lot, from which supplier, went into it?

SolutionOne screen leads from the finished lot to the work order, the formula version and the consumed raw material lots. Lots are recorded when a task is accepted, so the view shows recorded links, not assumptions.

Orders & shipping

Order prices are frozen at order time

ProblemWhen a product price was updated, the totals of past orders shifted too.

SolutionThe line price is stored with the line when the order is placed; later price list changes do not alter an approved order. Changes to list prices go through manager approval.

Frequently asked questions

Who can see our formula?

Only the operator assigned to the job, scaled to that job’s quantity; ingredients marked confidential are not named to people without permission. Access is managed per person in settings.

Can we keep client brands separate from our own?

Yes. Brands are master data; a brand with no owner is your own, a brand with an owner is that client’s brand.

Contact

Tell us about your factory.

Describe your production and the work that is hardest for you in a few sentences. We will get back to you about the pilot, a factory visit or a remote demo.

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